Tag: Proton Synchrotron Booster

  • Accelerator Report: Exploring potential performance increases

    Accelerator Report: Exploring potential performance increases

    The LHC injector chain has been switched to a new beam production scheme to explore its potential to produce more collisions in the LHC and to compare its performance to that of the standard LHC beam

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  • Accelerator Report: Already a fifth of the way there

    Accelerator Report: Already a fifth of the way there

    The LHC is performing well and the injector complex is treating its experimental users to a high level of beam availability

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  • Accelerator Report: The LHC is well ahead of schedule

    Accelerator Report: The LHC is well ahead of schedule

    Almost the whole accelerator complex is now in “physics mode”, routinely delivering the various types of beam to the different physics facilities and experiments. Notably, the intensity ramp-up in the LHC is progressing remarkably well

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  • Accelerator Report: Advancing smoothly through recommissioning and overcoming challenges

    Accelerator Report: Advancing smoothly through recommissioning and overcoming challenges

    The injection of the first protons into the LHC is scheduled for 11 March, but could be brought forward by a few days if all goes well

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  • CERN’s accelerators gear up for action after the winter maintenance break

    CERN’s accelerators gear up for action after the winter maintenance break

    A new physics run is about to begin! The first particle beams should reach the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on 11 March

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  • Accelerator Report: The accelerator complex gears up for action after the yearly winter maintenance break

    Accelerator Report: The accelerator complex gears up for action after the yearly winter maintenance break

    The first beams are already circulating in the Linac4 and PS Booster and should reach the LHC on 11 March. A new physics run is about to begin!

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  • Accelerator Report: Exploring performance potential for future benefit

    Accelerator Report: Exploring performance potential for future benefit

    The year-end technical stop (YETS) officially started on 30 October, with promising performance tests in Linac4. The injection of the first 2024 LHC beam is scheduled for 11 March 2024

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  • Giorgio Brianti (1930 – 2023)

    Giorgio Brianti(1930 – 2023) — BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://home.cern/news/obituary/accelerators/giorgio-brianti-1930-2023) Giorgio Brianti, a pillar of CERN throughout his 40-year career, passed away on 6 April at the age of 92. He played a major role in the success of CERN and in particular the Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) project, and his legacy

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  • A spring awakening: CERN’s accelerators gear up for 2023

    A spring awakening: CERN’s accelerators gear up for 2023

    Following the winter shutdown, the injectors and accelerators are preparing for the 2023 data-taking season

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  • A spring awakening: CERN’s accelerators gear up for 2023

    A spring awakening: CERN’s accelerators gear up for 2023

    Following the winter shutdown, the injectors and accelerators are preparing for the 2023 data-taking season

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